[Axiom-developer] RE: Fedora and Literate Programming

[Sandy Payette]

Hi Tim,

I'm from the Cornell side of the project.  If you would like to talk we
could set up phone call some time next week.  I'm also copying Chris
Wilper who is our lead developer.  I'd like to include him too if he is
available.

Let me know times that would work, and I'll compare schedules.

- Sandy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Daly [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:04 PM
> To: address@hidden; address@hidden; Sandy Payette
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> Subject: Fedora and Literate Programming
> 
> *,
> 
> I've been reading about your Fedora project. As I understand it the
> project is an effort to create a digital repository architecture.
> 
> I'm the lead developer on Axiom, a large, general purpose computer
algebra
> system. Axiom has been rebuilt from the ground up to use literate
> programming.
> That is, the system is now able to mix research and technical papers
with
> runnable code. Every file in the system is now a TeX document and C,
lisp,
> boot, Makefiles, and algebra code are all dynamically extracted during
> build.
> 
> We're designing the new Axiom system with a 30-year planning horizon.
> Thus we are looking for ways to support Computational Mathematics as
> a separate discipline. Clearly we need to incorporate ways to
integrate
> multimedia as well as research papers, algorithm descriptions, and
> executable code into some well thought out platform. For teaching
> purposes we should be able to interact with net-based resources like
> MIT's Open Courseware (ocw.mit.edu) project.
> 
> Your project offers an interesting look at a possible back-end
> architecture
> for Axiom. We could consider subsuming all of the literate
programming,
> current compiled objects, and databases into a Fedora repository as
well
> as research and video lectures.
> 
> If one of you feel this is an interesting idea I'd like to have a
phone
> conversation to discuss possible directions. Please contact me at:
> 
> Tim Daly
> address@hidden